Dakar 2018

2018 Edition of famous Dakar Rally Raid formerly Paris - Dakar. For the 10th Dakar to be held in South America and the 40th on total the event’s organisers have come up with a varied and highly selective two-week itinerary that will take in sand dunes in Peru, lofty Andean territory in Bolivia and dirt trails in Argentina.

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2018: 191 vehicles completed the 40th edition: 85 bikes, 32 quads, 49 cars including 6 SxS and 25 trucks, meaning 55% of the competitors that set out from Lima two weeks ago reached the finish. 2017: 97 motorcycles, 22 quads, 63 cars (including 5 SSVs) and 38 trucks, or 220 vehicles from the 318 who set off from Asunción in Paraguay on 2 January, 2017, reached the Buenos Aires arrival podium in Argentina.

2016: 218 vehicles (84 bikes, 23 quads, 67 cars and 44 trucks) from 347 starters in Buenos Aires.

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2015: 216 vehicles made it to the finish line (79 bikes, 18 quads, 68 cars, 51 trucks) from 406 at the start

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Brabec forced to quit Dakar 2018! Stranded at km 52 km on the special for the last four hours, Ricky Brabec has eventually decided to give up. The official HRC rider has not been able to repair his Honda, which had caught fire.

Attention: this is a older image and shows the burning motorcycle of Honda rider Paulo Goncalves of Portugal, during the 2014 Dakar Rally, between the cities of Chilecito and Tucuman in San Miguel. Honda and fire, weird concidence between them and Argentina.....

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Joan Barreda has retired from the 2018 Dakar whilst still holding second position. After having suffered several falls in some of the earlier stages of the rally and punishing his body severely, the exhausted Spaniard made the decision to completely withdraw. Joan had started the rally with a nagging injury to his left wrist, before falling heavily in the seventh stage, La Paz – Uyuni, where he sustained a damaged left knee.

Despite the pain, Barreda soldiered on the following day to hold on to his top five place. Yesterday, on the route of the tenth stage from Salta – Belén stage, Barreda suffered concussion in the head.

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The rider, still determined to defend his overall second place in the general standings, was forced to call an end to his seventh campaign, which is living up to its name as the ‘World’s Toughest Rally’. Barreda goes home with three stage victories this time and a total of twenty-two in all his Dakar participations.

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The 11th stage will take the field to Chilecito. A part of the drivers will start into the stage in a special procedure, the so-called ‘Super Fiambalá’: the top 10 of the motorbike and the car standings as well as the top five of the trucks will start in mixed order according to their times set in stage 10.

In addition, 70 percent of the 280 kilometer stage will feature the famous dunes of Fiambalá.

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Tomorrow, the second marathon stage will also be held, only for motorcycles this time. Riders once again will not be allowed any outside mechanical assistance once the bikes arrive at the parc ferm and are only allowed to work on bikes themselves.

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Adrien Van Beveren crashed hard approximately 3 km from finish of today's stage leading comfortable. Despite heroic afford was the injured french rider not capable to finish the stage. He has been evacuated by the medical team’s helicopter.

The overall standings leader has broken his right collar bone, injured his thorax and spine. His injuries are too severe to be able to complete the remaining 3 km of the special stage or the rally!

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Get well soon Adrien, great performance at 2018 Dakar!

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Colcar RT Bolivia

Colcar RT during Rally Dakar 2018 - Stage 7 La Paz to Uyuni Sebastián Scholz Vergnolle and Martín Maldonado Colcar #366 Mercedes based prototype arrival in Bolivia

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Enlace Etapa 7 Dakar 2018

En enlace, los dos Prototipos Colcar RT pasando por Oruro ¡This is Dakar Rally! 🇧🇴🇧🇴🇧🇴🇧🇴🇧🇴 👏👏👏👏👏 ¡Comienza la acción 🚙💨!

Posted by Sebastián Scholz Vergnolle on Saturday, January 13, 2018

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Today's tenth stage, which links the bivouacs of Salta and Belén, will feature a total of 797 kilometers, including 424 km timed special. A crucial sand and dune-filled stage, with a final stint that will require some deft navigation, could prove to be decisive towards the overall results as the race heads into its final days.

In Argentina, the competitors seeing the return of the hot weather after several days in the rain. On the way to Belén, it is 38°C in the shade and 43°C in the sunshine. The final classification of todya’s stage (motorcycles, quad, cars, SSV and trucks) will dictate the starting order of the coming Super-Fiambalá stage, the next marathon stage.

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For the team yesterday has been a good little break, of course, but they are still preparing the following stages as we have done so far: day by day, meticulously while trying to avoid any mistakes.

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Kamaz Dakar 2018

The fan favourites of Dakar are the trucks. Mike Chen gets up close and personal with the beasts of Dakar, the Kamaz trucks. Take a look at just how powerful these enormous trucks are to be able to make it through the stages of Dakar.

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Kamaz Truck Tour

13-liter engine. Nearly 1000hp. This is the truck of Kamaz.

Posted by Red Bull Motorsports on Sunday, January 14, 2018

While the trucks are more advanced than some of the competition, that does not account for all of Kamaz's success.

The combination of experience and desire from the team's drivers help push the Kamaz trucks to the front of the pack.

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What is so astounding is that they are able to push the trucks so hard day after day for thousands of miles without catastrophic failure.

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Weather conditions in the area in the last few days are preventing assistance crews from refurbishing race vehicles for stage 9 after the demanding marathon stage.

The field of the Dakar will therefore head to the Salta bivouac by road. The rally will resume with stage 10 from Salta to Belén at the 16th of January 2018

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Due to poor weather conditions organizer ASO canceled Monday's Tupiza - Salta stage. This stage was to feature a 242 km timed special and to mark the end of the event's Bolivian leg. Recent heavy rains in the area created doubts over the stage's viability, and event promoter ASO has made the decision to call off competition and have the rally's participants travel to Salta in formation as a caravan.

Contributing to the decision was the state of the Tupiza bivouac. The destination point of Sunday's stage is currently covered in water and mud, although the conditions are not as severe as they had been during last year's washout of the Oruro bivouac, likewise located in Bolivia.

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The cancellation of the Monday stage marks only the second disruption to this year's edition. The opening stages in Peru were held entirely to distance, and only the stage between Peru's Arequipa and Bolivia's La Paz saw a 118km timed section cut for the bike and quad classes.

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If you real stuck and nothing else helps - there is always a piece of heavy equipment from Caterpillar that will make some way to eascape. In this case Jordi Juvanteny, José Luis Criado and Javier Tamayo got stuck during #Dakar2018 Rallyraid in a huge sandbowl between dunes with their KH-7 6x6 truck.

A local heavy equipment operator helped them to "escape". Impressive scenery.

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It was a dreadful 6th stage of the 2018 Dakar Rally to the capital of Bolivia, La Paz. Riders had moved on from Peru into Bolivia by the picturesque Lake Titicaca, the highest lake above sea level.

The assistance vehicles ran into rain and snow in the mountain passes which clogged up the entrance to La Paz.

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Monster Energy Honda Team rider Kevin Benavides posting second on the day, which elevates the Argentinean rider to the top of the overall leader board.

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Dakar 2018 continues tomorrow with stage 7 from La Paz to Uyuni. The liaison amounts to 302km, the timed special is 425km. To make it special it is a so called "marathon stage" ie only riders/drivers and copilots can work on their vehicles!! No permission to receive any external mechanical assistance!

The vehicles are parked in a parc ferme style holding area until start the coming day to continue with the longest special stage 8 of the rally, covering nearly 500 kilometers, a genuine test in high-altitude sand dunes 3,500 m above sea level.

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Well-deserved rest day in La Paz, Bolivia and the chance to recharge the batteries as well as making preparations for the decisive coming week at the Dakar.

The support teams spending the day meticulously going over preparations as the team prepare for the final crucial week of #Dakar 2018.

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Today’s stage will take the field to Arequipa, the final stop in Peru. It will be a long day for the drivers: the distance to be covered amounts to 934 kilometers, 268 of them against the clock. Motorbikes / quads on the one side and cars / trucks on the other will contest the stage on different routes.

And it goes without saying that the competitors once again will have to cope with dunes.

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Joan "BangBang" Barreda: One day everything is fine and then the next day it’s all very sad. We have to stay focused on the goal. Today with all the difficulties that we had things turned out pretty well as we had planned, because tomorrow is the final day of the sand dunes.

We wanted to start out from behind to try attack tomorrow, so that was perfect. We had a doubt over a waypoint that didn’t appear to be positioned right and we had to ride around quite a bit to find it and we lost a few minutes in the end.

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So, it’s a good position. It’s a shame Sunderland is out as he’s one of the strongest rivals. My hand injury was playing up a bit today; it’s not so bad in the dunes but hurts a bit up in the mountains, but I’ll just have to put up with it. Joan tweets @joanbangbang88

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Adrien Van Beveren accomplished his second stage victory on the Dakar after a divine performance in the Ica Desert. The Frenchman has triumphed with a significant lead of five minutes over his countryman Xavier de Soultrait.

Matthias Walkner (KTM) and Pablo Quintanilla (Husqvarna) have finished more than seven minutes behind.

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According to unconfirmed (Social Media) reports is last years winner of the Dakar Rally, Sam Sunderland (KTM) out of the #Dakar2018 race with a injured back.

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